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I'm probably going to be waiting for the Blu-ray the more I think of it. I'll still spend less than I will on a trip for me and my old lady to the movies and a minimal amount of goodies. Then still have to deal with all the inconveniences of the movies, as well, from parking to the overpriced concessions to the crowd to the cell phones to the other moviegoers. And I won't be able to recoup any by selling my copy if I really hate it.

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Heh. Have there been any Indy crossovers? There was the Willow/Star Wars crossover... I know that Indy crossover mentioned before was in jest, but it IS possible...

I do enjoy the first Starship Troopers... but a more faithful rendition of Starship Troopers would work. Most of the exposition and sociopolitical stuff in the book would be dead weight, but a movie based around the power armor with the same general plot and showing some good small unit tactics of the MI would be nice.

Munich was ok. The end was weaker than anything but had a few good gunfights. Much more of a drama than an action film. Daniel Craig and Bana are great. Ended up seeing Narnia Prince Caspian instead of Indy IV yesterday. Maybe today I'll get a chance.

Buzzing noises are ground loops and should only happen with analog connections (component, composite, etc) but not HDMI. I read about all sorts of HDMI issues, compounded by the 3 different versions in wide circulation but am happy to report to that I've never really experienced them. Sony SXRD, Denon 4306, and PS3 are all fine, as is my on-again, off-again STB (if Charter could pull their head out and stop being so intransigent against the CableCARD, which is a great kit... when it works - whenever they do an upgrade I lose it and they send out techs on 2 or 3 occassions who don't know their ass from their elbow).

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Yeah, you about hit on it. More specifically, MC's are said to be in teh cells. It's not something you can do with a blood transfusion (unless you could put them in every cell in your blood, if not your whole body). And we still don't know if life (and/or the Force) creates the MC's or if MC's create life (or the Force). Saying Fred Jedi has 5,000 or whatever MC's while Yoda, one of the greatest has some number greater than Fred but less than 20,000 but some untrained slave kid has more than that is purely meant to give a "uh, wtf, over?" and for qui-gon to get his crazy theory going and be prepared to defy the council. Thus, the only part that bugs me about MC's is the way Jake Lloyd carefully pronounces the word (correctly but different from how Liam Neeson just pronounced it). IOW, it was obviously scripted rather than 'natural' acting. I should be going to see Indy 4 today, though.

It was a good thing, sheesh. You were complimentary, and we were in a rare agreement on an issue where you liked one of my opinions/arguments and you quoted me to another board. Force "conservationists" or some such. Search can't find it and the PMs are gone, too. Looks like it may have been before 2003, probably lost with the old boards. Plagarism was intended in the humorously, but apparently you forgot the reference. To use your global warming example, the analogy to the MC debate would be instead that possibility that the increased temperature caused the Co2 levels to rise, instead. Obviously we know that to not be the case for that specific instance (wrt Global Warming), but we have a better "body" of "EU" (as it were). Realistically the debate is over the cause of the CO2. Cars? Volcanoes? Whether the activities of man make a dent... or not. Back to midichlorians, you seem to think that a high concentration of them is the cause for greater strength in the Force and this is the part on which I don't agree that we know which way the causality progresses from and to. Sorry, I thought you could connect the dots on your own: my point wrt causation versus correlation is that we still do not know if more MCs cause greater (potential) power in the Force or if greater potential in the Force causes more MC's. That was certainly not established in TPM, nor anywhere else. Qui-Gon conjectures that this must mean that Anakin is the chosen one from prophecy. Yoda (and the rest of the Jedi Council) is clearly skeptical of that viewpoint and chooses not to train him. The rest of the council (at least a majority) apparently changes their mind. You are, apparently. My order of preference is of very slight (if not insignificant) degree while you are quite clear in your disdain of what you see as the less refined humor. Obviously when Star Wars IV or V are on HBOHD, I'll usually watch at least a little of it, just as I would if VI or III were on. I just don't find any of them terribly sophisticated in anything other than SFX and eye candy. Juvenille humor abounds in all of the SW and Indy movies... None of it is Homer or Ovid... a fart joke isn't any better than "what a wonderful smell you've discovered" nor is Jar-Jar stepping in poodoo less sophisticated than a walking carpet "roaring at a mouse droid," which then runs away. Maybe it is Homer. Simpson, that is, who's done all of the above. But yeah, Star Wars is as no good for artistic or educational merit wrt taken seriously than Indy is meant to be taken seriously as a study on archeology. Both are great to much popcorn on to 1080p and booming 7.1, if not also the ocassional video game or RPG. You only said something so amusingly similar that it would be pedantic to point out the minutia in difference from having your childhood "raped" versus just being "F*cked with." You're welcome. Hate? Don't give yourself so much credit. Wry amusement at best to mockingly ridiculed at worst. I think you may have projected, Freudian-style there, some of your own thoughts, though. "Betrayal?" So very interesting. Already addressed and FTR, I think it's 10 year olds, not 6. FWIW, I like RotJ the most as an adult because of the Redemption angle and specifically it's echos in everything from Bram Stoker's Dracula to more theological angles. On a more visceral level it takes everything I might like about the first movie and does it better: better lightsaber duel, better space battle, and better SFX all around. RotJ also has more emotion invested in its climax than any other SW movie except possibly Leia's "I love you" in TESB and Obi-wan's anguished "You were the chosen one!" in ROTS. I have no trouble ignoring Chewiw's tarzan yell any more than I do Motti's sideburns or Cliff Clavin on Hoth. I like Last Crusade the best from my undergrad fascination with the History of the Crusades (even if the history in that Indy movie is complete rubbish, especially when they're talking about Alexandretta and siege taking over a year and the complete destruction of the town, I can't help but roll my eyes - the Siege was Antioch, it did take over a year, it wasn't destroyed but conquered, etc etc). I can happily ignore the english that the Knight learned somewhere, though (though i enjoy making quips about it, as I did a page or two back). Less sophistimicated, I laugh my ass off at the nasty Nazi who gets crushed around like a rag doll as his tank goes over the edge. Always good to see Nazis getting crushed. And how can you go wrong with Han Solo and his pops James Bond? Great article/ebook on just about all of the myths of the SW trilogy (on just about every subject here, but also touches on the myths of the serial style "Adventures of Luke Skywalker" Lucas originally wanted to the 12 episode treatment to the "trilogy of trilogies" to the "Tragedy of Darth Vader" that is his current speal, but also on the difference in style from Ep V, etc) that I caught on my slashdot RSS feed earlier this week: http://www.secrethistoryofstarwars.com/book.html

Yeah not sure this power armor is going to turn out well. I think this is going to end up more like Transformers than anything. We'll get alot of the basic elements but it won't remember the source material much at all, except in the names and vague similarities in the characters. Optimus Prime of the cartoon/comics would have never been punked by Megatron like he was in the movie, for example... not without dishing it out just as well (if not having it caused by a foolish minion getting in his line of fire). Similarly, I am fearing we'll get a mostly silent Snake Eyes, but he'll be far more like Snake Eyes of the cartoon than the main character of the comics. It's not a travesty unless they make him a Governator-style with one-liner quipping throughout. :ph3ar:

More specifically the 1930s serials that Lucas himself enjoyed as a kid. Both Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Eh. Some of the characters were seemingly lobotimized (especially Brody) for the last movie, but I really don't think there is a difference in tone. Substantially, they all boil down to the same plotline with differences in details and differences in which treasure it is, which chic he is pursuing and who the sidekick is.

No, I just expect your arguments to be logically composed from it's premises. You are apparently incapable of distinguishing causation from correlation. There are people who can help you with that. I can merely enjoy pointing out when you miss that. As far as mocking any supposed "essays" I might have constructed, you should look up hypocrite yourself since you've openly admitted to citing my posts on other boards. What would that make you? A plagarist? I sense you getting a bit testy... hopefully you're smiling as you're writing your posts as I am, though. All the MC's do is give a pseudo-scientific way to rephrase "the Force is strong in my family." There is simply no jusification to jump to any other conclusion given the few mentions of them in any SW movie or any EU that I'm aware of. This is a very simple question that even you should be able to follow: Where was relative power established again? Justify your leap in logic that midichlorians represent a Jedi's relative power versus a Jedi's relative potential. Despite your conclusion (unsubstatiated by the dialog in the movie or any EU), the only thing established by midichlorians was that some some untrained freak slave kid had more midichlorians than one of the greatest living Jedi Masters. You certainly don't think either Obi-wan or Qui-gon thought that Anakin was more powerful than Yoda when that line was mentioned in the movie do you? Do you really think Lucas intended to say that Anakin was more powerful than Yoda or the Emperor even at any point in Revenge of the Sith? You're right, you were on topic. You take any chance you can to deride anything Lucas... Indy is obviously connected to that, as you yourself have done. I obviously (and have repeatedly stated as such) don't think Doom or Raiders were ever intended to be taken any more seriously than Last Crusade, the same as Phantom Menace was always intended to the same 10 year old audience that A New Hope was. Lucas has always been about recreated the 1930s serial schlock that he enjoyed so much as a kid himself. No, you simply play a semantic game (which is your typical modus operandii, as BSU called you out on way back when) to the same effect: QUOTE (Hurin @ Oct 31 2003, 02:18 PM) <<I've said it before and I'll say it again: George Lucas needs to stop f'ing with my childhood.>> http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?show...ost&p=48121 I proise, I'll restrict my future mocking of your actual words to be wrt to Lucas just F*cking with your childhood, if you'd really prefer it, though. It is pretty amusing that the arguments haven't changed in 5+ years. Thankfully that didn't get lost in the last h4x0r attack. That was a pretty fun thread (and ironically enough also with the subject title Indiana Jones). Not at all. I enjoy a decent debate and have never shied from ridiculing the ridiculous. You have always provided ample enjoyment, especially in the latter (if not the former).

I'm still a big fan of the original 1/60. Yeah, it's floppy... yeah it's 1S head scuplt isn't that hot (though I prefer it to the 1/48 due to the placement of the seam, if nothing else), but this new one looks perfect. I'll get at least 2 or 3 CF if they're the proper brown color. I'd get the same number of Low-Viz if they do them.

Excellent! Anticipation is going to build EXTREMELY rapid now. Wonder how soon before I see it at Frank & Sons and if I should keep the HLJ preorder...

Thread title made me think of the Overfiend or LaBlue Girl for some reason.

Excellent. I recall it's rumor from a previous thread (may have even been #5?) but wasn't paying atttn to TF news (obviously). Thanks! Interesting. I recall the rumors were about the cape and crown but I see those are a separate add-on. Thanks!

One doesn't need an essay, just a basic grasp of logic. I understand that eludes you, what with the trauma from your raped childhood and all that, but the lack of causation means there is no necessary diminishment of anything. Other than your continued lack of rationality and straying from the topic at hand.

Maybe I missed this... been looking around but not seeing it... at Frank & Sons, they have what appears to be a US packaged MP Starscream with some Japanese stickers on it. Is this the same as the Hasbro or is there anything else about it?

I used to like the old accessory packs. Except for the funky colors they came in. If they had done blacks and greys, I'd have liked them much better than the magenta and the like we got instead.

Remember getting one for $9.99 from KayBee (I think) way back when. Knew I should have bought two. :cry:

Hardly. All the MC's did was give a quantification for "the Force is strong in my family." Despite what you might read on the intarw3b, Causation was not established... merely correlation. I'm more interested in knowing now the Knight in Last Crusade learned such good (and modern!) English.

I could see Red Dawn redone well. Always thought that movie was a bit overrated, though. Robocop remake could only be a travesty, though. Do a new or maybe "next" robocop maybe...

Indeed, I've noticed that, too. Growing far less skeptical than I was originally. Still a bit annoyed at lebouf being in this but shouldn't be too hard to get over it.

Voted No on informative and yes, satisfied. Some of the guys get a little annoying with their repetiveness, but I have a mental filter for them. I have 5 x 1/60 VF-1, 1 x 1/60 YF-19FP, 3 x 1/48 VF-1,1 x 1/72 YF-21FP, and 1/72 VF-19A

My YF-19FP r0x0rs. I am very much looking forward to adding the YF-21!